Re-posted for everyone's convenience. This time you don't have to sift though all those annoying pictures of my drunken self and drunken friends to get to the sweet, wholesome kitty.

This is not your pattern. It also isn't entirely my pattern. Don't reproduce it. If you do reproduce it, don't pass it off as your own intellectual property. If you do pass it off as your own, at least re-type it and don't go all psycho on me because it has foul language in it.

Some people are fucking stupid.

And some people are nice and want to knit kitties and sell them to raise money for some worthy cause. To you I say "Knit on, my friend, and post a pitcure!"


And here's a knitted kitty.




The instructions are for a grey-n-white kitty, but you can obviously do it in just one color, or anything else. Tabby if you're brave.

You will need:

About 25 gr (1oz) cat color double knitting wool (sport-weight)
1 pair no.3mm (2 US) knitting needles

(or)

Some cat colored worsted weight wool
1 pair size US 5 or 6 needles

(or)

Cat colored wool in any weight
1 pair of needles large/small enough to make a relatively tight fabric. Swatch it up, motherfucker.

(and)

Some fleece for stuffing (I used fabric scraps)
One thread of pink and one of blue or green wool for the face
Optional: a little bell to put around the cat's neck on a ribbon

Instructions:

For white and grey cat:

Body: Cast on 24 sts in white and knit 12 rows. Change to grey and knit 34 rows. Change to white and knit 6 rows. Cast off.

Head: Cast on 14 sts in grey. Knit 14 rows. K tog. the first 2 sts at the beg. of the next 4 rows. Increase 1 st at the beg. of the next 4 rows. Knit 14 rows. Cast off.

Tail: Cast on 16 sts. K 1st row. In the 2nd row, K 10 sts and turn (leaving 6 sts "unknitted"). 3rd row K (this row is shorter now). Repeat these 3 rows 3 times.

Here are the 3 pieces:


And here's a diagram of what to do with the body:


Corners 1,2,3,4 are the feet. Fold E to X and B to Y. Sew the leg seams. Now sew the leg seams on the other side in a corresponding way, i.e. C to Y and D to X. Stuff the body and close by sewing up the seam at A.






Now fold the headpiece in half and sew up both side seams. Stuff the head and close the top seam. To make the ears sew diagonally across the corners with a small running stitch. Embroider face. Sew the head onto the front of the body.

Sew up the tail (it hardly needs stuffing) and sew onto the appropriate place on the cat.





Ok, I obviously didn't put a face on mine, but that's because I don't have anything close to pink or green wool lying around. I'm not that fucking crafty.